JK Rowling will not be joining the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special on HBO Max, which is set to premiere on January 1, after the author has been embroiled in controversy.

The headline CPI rate spiked to 4.2 per cent in October from 3.1 per cent in September, driven by supply chain chaos, labour shortages and surges in energy costs.

Participants who drank two coffees and two teas daily were a third less likely to suffer a stroke, researchers said. They were also 28 per cent less likely to develop dementia.

Paul Nickerson, a Conservative councillor in East Riding, Yorkshire, has faced widespread condemnation after tweeting the doctored picture of the former Labour leader.

An official report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman says Dennis Smalley died aged 70 in hospital of Covid pneumonia on March 16 while a prisoner at high-security HMP Wakefield.

The Government is set to confirm tomorrow that it is ditching the HS3 line across the Pennines linking Manchester and Leeds - part of the Northern Powerhouse Rail project.

Emad Al Swealmeen lost his first bid to stay in Britain in 2014 but appealed again in 2017 after he was baptised and confirmed at Liverpool Cathedral.

The Ridley Road star (pictured in the show), 53, said they should be seen as a distinct group with issues that need to be fixed.

Keir Starmer urged 'criminal authorities' to look into allegations that Mr Johnson inappropriately touched ex-minister Caroline Nokes at the 2003 Tory Party conference in Blackpool.

This is the cramped, shabby Liverpool home of suicide bomber Enzo Almeni, from where he plotted to carry out his failed Poppy Day attack and made pizzas in his spare time.

Construction of the pipeline, which will carry Russian gas directly across the Baltic to Germany, was delayed by United States sanctions and is strongly opposed by many European countries.

The British Medical Association - which balloted thousands of family doctors in England - won't share the results with the public because 'there is no need to do so'.

Jeremy Clarkson's huge new six-bedroom mansion on his Diddly Squat Farm estate which was built on the site of a Cotswolds farmhouse he blew up for The Grand Tour is now nearing completion.

Wholesale prices shot up across Europe amid worries Russia will not increase deliveries of gas via alternative routes if the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is blocked.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised the issue of the 2,500-year-old sculptures, at a meeting with the Prime Minister at Downing Street today, but Mr Johnson insisted there was nothing he could do.

Kathleen Stock announced she would be resigning from Sussex a fortnight ago after receiving death threats, bringing an end to the two-month saga that saw her branded a 'transphobe' by her pupils.

The Post Office has agreed to hand over secret emails that could explain why hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted for fraud, theft and false accounting.

Look-ups for the word spiked following in Nasa's mission to Mars on February 18, with 30,487 searches for 'perseverance' between February 19 and February 25 this year.

The founder of a tech firm advised by David Cameron (pictured) has been accused of physical abuse and sexual harassment by a female employee.

The PM proposed a dramatic overhaul of rules that could hit the interests of at least 29 Tory MPs, as he seeks to further backtrack from a failed bid to block the suspension of Owen Paterson.

Kwasi Kwarteng backed a call from Labour MP Gareth Thomas in Parliament yesterday for LV to disclose how much it was paying advisers on the £530million deal.

Malcolm and Elizabeth Hitchcott (pictured) gave Emad Al Swealmeen a room in their home for eight months in 2017. No one who knew him raised the alarm about his behaviour.

Former Tory treasurer David Rowland wired the money to a London bank account held by the Duke of York in December 2017, according to reports by Bloomberg.

Serious and prolific criminals will be forced to wear an electronic tag - which triggers an alarm if it detects alcohol in their system - to prevent them from reoffending.

The pop star, 42, padlocked himself to steel gates outside the MBR Acres research site in Cambridgeshire and held a poster reading calling for an end to medical research on the beagles.

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Ministers have 'lost grip' of the benefits system, MPs said last night after it emerged that £8.3billion had been lost to fraud following the relaxation of rules because of Covid-19.

Simon Howard, 65, sexually abused a six-year-old girl, a court has found, and was also accused of attempting to rape a woman who were both overnight guests at a famous stately home.

Zohreh Koudaei, 32, saved two penalties during the 4-2 shoot-out victory over Jordan in Uzbekistan, meaning the Iranian women's team qualified for its first ever Women's Asia Cup.

The Warsaw authorities issued orders to douse a group who were throwing stones, smoke bombs and pieces of metal fence at their soldiers despite the near-freezing conditions, MailOnline can reveal.

Prosecutors speaking at Birmingham Crown Court allege 'obsessive and controlling' Ian Bennett, 38, stabbed Kerry Woolley more than 50 times after he accused her of cheating on him.

Boris Johnson has written to Speaker Lindsay Hoyle proposing a dramatic overhaul of the rules to crack down on abuses of the system - that could hit the interests of a number of Tory MPs.

The monarch, 95, failed to address the Church of England's national assembly at Church House in Westminster for the first time in her 69-year reign on Tuesday.

Pc Fletcher, 25, was killed while policing a demonstration against the former Libyan leader outside his country's embassy in St James's Square in central London on April 17, 1984.

Germany recorded 32,048 new infections on Tuesday, a rise of 47 per cent compared to a week ago, and another 265 deaths.

Lord Feldman, a former tennis partner of David Cameron, referred three businesses to ministers before they were given untendered contracts using a 'VIP fast lane'.

MailOnline witnessed at least boats full of migrants slipping away from two remote and near deserted beaches south of Calais.

Oliver Roc, 41, is among the eco zealots from the Extinction Rebellion offshoot who have blocked roads on 19 days since September 13, causing misery for motorists stuck in London and beyond.

Comparing before and after ULEZ was introduced in April 2019, there were also 'insignificant' reductions in ozone (O3) and tiny particles called PM2.5, Imperial College London experts report.

Louise Reeves, who could get £80m under her father's will, has been accused of 'coercing' Kevin Reeves into leaving her most of his fortune as she is 'materialistic', her brother Bill has claimed.

Deaths - which are a lagging indicator - continued to fall with the 214 victims registered today down 18 per cent on the toll last Tuesday.

Teacher Aimee Jones, 35, has been jailed for eight months at Teesside Crown Court today after admitting four counts of sexually touching a girl aged between 13 and 17 at a hearing last month.

CCTV footage, taken at 10.10pm on Saturday in Leyland, Lancashire, shows three men armed with weapons including a hammer and a kitchen knife storm the staff and force them inside.

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle announced that a motion approving the standards report into the former minister had been passed without a formal division.

Security Minister Damian Hinds said there had been a move away from attackers working for large organisations towards 'self-directed' individuals or small groups carrying out attacks.

Martin Owen (pictured) who was inside Liverpool Women's Hospital with his partner at the time, shared his thanks to driver David Perry for helping to protect the many young families in the vicinity.

A young mother's haunting last steps before she vanished without a trace in Bristol after the Queen's Diamond Jubilee weekend in 2012 have been released by police.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps is expected to confirm on Thursday that the eastern leg of the multi-billion pound HS2 line between Birmingham and Leeds will not go ahead.

Although there is nothing to suggest any linked attacks are planned, bosses at NHS trusts have been told to make sure staff are aware of what to do in the event of a terrorist incident.

A chartered quantity surveyor who told colleagues their Kent firm had HIV and he would 'stop it becoming full blown AIDS' has been left with a £10,000 bill after losing an employment tribunal.

Ken Lowry, 48, who is a director and trustee of the national CERT UK charity and also runs his own company called Homeless Birmingham, admitted to paying the 16-year-old for sex.

Emad Al Swealmeen changed his name by deed poll in 2017 to make it easier to pronounce. In tribute to Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari, the car-mad asylum seeker became Enzo Almeni.

The latest figures suggested the impact of the end of the massive bailout could be largely absorbed by the strong labour market.

Yesterday's suicide outside a Liverpool hospital came as millions of Britons gathered to observe gathered to observe the annual 11am two-minute silence on Remembrance Sunday.

Priti Patel was due to meet Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in person on Tuesday amid a war of words between London and Paris following a recent surge of migrant crossings.

A Leonid meteor storm visible across Australia in the early hours of Thursday morning is worth staying up late or getting up early for. Here's how to watch the incredibly light display where you are.

The motorist was trying to escape from police when he lost control of his BMW while driving at high speed through Victoriei Square in Bucharest, Romania. The car was written off after hitting a traffic light.

Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters have been demonstrating outside the Kenosha courthouse threatening to shut down the city and the National Guard are on standby for any unrest.

The lawsuit, filed by Houston Attorney Tony Buzbee, accuses rapper Travis Scott and festival organizers of 'gross negligence' for the chaos at Astroworld on November 5.

The woman, in her 20s, fell from a tower block in Southend and was fighting for life in hospital for five days before she succumbed to her injuries prompting police to launch a murder probe.

'I've been on the conservatorship for 13 years. That's a really long time to be in a situation you don't wanna be in,' Spears, 39, told her followers in a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday.

Ladonna Meyers, a grandmother of two, filed the report with federal agents following a meeting on November 9 of the Fort Worth Independent School District board.

From Friday, all hospitality businesses in Ireland will have to close at midnight with the use of Covid passports expanded and workers told to stay at home where possible to combat a rise in cases.

Bosses said entry-level wages will rise from £9.50 to £10.10 an hour outside London and from £10.85 to £11.30 in the capital from March next year.

Decathlon stores in Calais and Grand-Synthe, near Dunkirk, will no longer sell canoes to prevent migrants from using them to cross the Channel to Britain.

For his biological family, the pain of not knowing what happened to William on the morning of November 12, 2014, has been a constant source of anguish.

The Watford-based pub chain said the half-chicken comes with coleslaw and either a lemon and herb glaze and a garlic and herb dip; or with a spicy Naga chilli and citrus glaze and Sriracha hot sauce.

Protesters demanding that Kenosha rise up if Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted roused the crowd outside the courthouse on Tuesday, as the jury continued its deliberations.

Cori Bush claimed she was shot at 'by white supremacists' during the 2014 Ferguson marches and Police Chief Frank McCall Jr said that he had no recollection of what Bush was referring to.

'You've heard explicitly from the president himself, that he has a longstanding relationship with President Xi,' said White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates on Tuesday.

'The White House follows CDC guidance which recommends masking in areas of high or substantial transmission,' White House spokesman Kevin Munoz said on Tuesday.

'Our Capitol Hill Correspondent...tells us he's been hearing whispers suggesting there could be some new high-profile confirmation hearings on the horizon,' said host Jesse Watters.

Tammy Lorimer, 43, had already lost her license two months before she is alleged to have killed her girlfriend in a bizarre drink-driving accident while four times over the limit.

RICHARD KAY: Multimillionaire David Rowland (left) paid off a £1.5 million loan for Prince Andrew (right). The Duke of York had taken out the with his Rowland's bank, Banque Havilland.

A young Sydneysider has been banned from visiting family in Adelaide without being forced into hotel quarantine, and the reason will make you furious.

State Trooper Rocky Oliphant said the woman was inside her Nissan Altima when the truck behind her failed to stop, folding the car before running it over on the Skagit River Bridge.

David Fry, 80, was found driving on the wrong side of the road and moved to an aged care home with his son John responsible for handling his affairs, but his son couldn't find the right paperwork.

Mark McGowan said his Rockingham office had been the target of death and bomb threats since the state government announced mandatory vaccination for much of its workforce.

Food Standards Australia took to Twitter on Wednesday to share the alert during Food Safety Week, which ends on November 20.

NSW Police from the taskforce investigating William's disappearance on Wednesday revealed a 56-year-old woman and 54-year-old man were each facing one charge of common assault.

Vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen John Hyten said China's space weapons could be used to launch a surprise attack on the US. China is thought to have carried out two tests of an orbital nuke.

A gunman is on the loose after a woman was shot at a busy medical centre on the Gold Coast when he dropped the firearm 'by accident' sending a bullet ricocheting around a stairwell.

Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was 'at the center of their case,' DailyMail.com reveal.

A forensic expert has revealed detectives are likely sifting through soil to find remains at the New South Wales property where William Tyrrell disappeared seven years ago.

Kyle Rittenhouse's former lawyer John Pierce told Fox News on Tuesday that he felt the teenager was the victim of a 'malicious prosecution' and was being persecuted politically.

Emad Al Swealmeen lost his bid to stay in Britain in 2014 but still had an appeal outstanding when he blew himself up on Sunday.

The spine-tingling police interview with the 13-year-old girl accused of brutally killing a 10-year-old girl in country NSW has revealed the moment a detective asks if she is responsible for the gruesome crime.

Inclement weather forecast (pictured) for early next week could spell trouble for Thanksgiving travel. Snow fell in New Hampshire on Tuesday as President Joe Biden (inset) delivered a speech

Officers were called to Lilyfield, in Sydney's inner-west, about 1.30pm on Tuesday. Police spoke with a 69-year-old when they arrived but moments later she plunged from a balcony.

Mark McCloskey, second from left, a candidate for US Senate, posed with supporters flashing the OK sign associated with white supremacy outside the Kenosha County Courthouse on Tuesday.

The painting was sold to Argentinian real estate developer and museum founder Eduardo F. Costantini at Sotheby's, breaking a price record previously set by Kahlo's husband Diego Rivera.

'CNN and some of the other TV stations have become vigilantes,' he said. 'They're the vigilantes, not Rittenhouse,' said Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz (left).

Rukesh Sadhai fell in love with a sex worker and stole more than $800,000 from his employer to pay off what he mistakenly believed was a hefty sum she owed to dangerous criminals.

Dozens of double vaccinted Australians are still unable to get home because of an 'utterly insane' stipulation in the government's new rules.

President Biden's getaways to Delaware have cost taxpayers about $3m across the president's 25 trips in just 43 weeks in office - a total of 77 days away from the White House.

Australians with specialist skills are getting the best pay increases in eight years as skilled migrants are kept out of the country. Hospitality workers are doing well too but public servants are missing out.

Australians have been hoarding cash despite the popularity of tap-and-go payments since the start of the pandemic in early 2020. The Reserve Bank of Australia has revealed a sad reason behind this.

Rev Mohammad Eghtedarian admitted in 2016 that 'plenty of people' were lying about their intentions after it emerged that the Church of England had christened hundreds of asylum seekers.

Nabil Maghnie, 44, was shot dead outside a home in Epping, in the city's northern suburbs in January last year. His daughter Sabrine has paid tribute to him with a tattoo.

A woman who was raped by Harley Palise, 30, and his friend Jarrod Thomas, 26, after they found her unconscious on Melbourne's Lygon Street has said she feels 'unable to find any joy in her days'.

Students at an Australian primary school will be encouraged to walk through the gates barefoot under a policy that will be ushered in 2022. The move has attracted criticism from experts.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed Joe Biden's Justice Department  for an 'egregious abuse of power' and demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland testify before Congress.

A spokesperson said the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action.

Limited cattle supply in Australia has sent red meat prices soaring, with Elders chief executive expecting prices to continue rising into 2022.

Police have found a mystery item at the William Tyrrell dig site along Batar Creek Road, Kendall and compared it with a sample of red and blue Spiderman suit cloth.

Hong Kong Customs has seized 890kg of live lobsters and 930kg of sea cucumbers, with a total estimated value of $1.8 million in an operation on Monday.

The 'small, ugly mob' of protesters who spent another night occupying Victorian parliament's steps will not stop the government's proposed pandemic laws, Premier Daniel Andrews says.

Alison J. Nathan, left, the judge presiding over socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case is set to be recommended to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Second District.

TikTok creator Adrian Wijinarko posted a video on Tuesday of his visit to the famous green tent outside the hardware and garden store in Sydney's inner west suburb of Ashfield.

A picture of what appears to be a pile of mud is a reminder of the camouflage abilities of one of Australia's deadliest animals. As a Facebook post reveals, hidden in the heavy mud is a crocodile.

Brett Connellan had been surfing at Bombo Beach in the coastal NSW town of Kiama when the shark lunged at him shortly after 7pm, taking three-quarters of his thigh with it.

The total cluster in the territory is now at 19 with all new infections recorded in Aboriginal Australians and household contacts of known cases.

A businessman won't get a luxury Mercedes, $87,000 in cash and jewelry back after a court agreed they should be kept by his much younger lover despite their casual relationship ending.

A manhunt is underway for two men as Chris Habiyakare's heartbroken father and stepmother opened up about the Melbourne rapper's troubled past and how he was turning his life around.

The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar, who posted an anime video that depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Biden.

Founder of Aussie restaurant chain Rashays Rami Ykmour has criticised the actions of undercover police who visited his Rhodes diner to check staff were following Covid-19 procedures.

Michelle Wu, a former city council member, became the first woman and the first person of color to be elected mayor of Boston on November 2. She assumed office Tuesday.

A small all-electric SUV selling for $72,000 has beaten the highly anticipated Toyota LandCruiser and Volkswagen Golf to be crowned the Carsales Car of the Year.

John Holland safety coordinator Nadi Norouzian stunned shoppers as he played on a public piano in his orange hi-vis uniform at Marrickville Metro in Sydney's inner-west.

Tourists and locals alike have been left stunned as millions of Red Crabs make their yearly migration from the jungle to the ocean to breed on Western Australia's Christmas Island.

Former Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson has been arrested fir his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar migration fraud.

Donald Trump is threatening to sue the Pulitzer Prize board if it doesn't strip the New York Times and Washington Post of prize won for their investigation of Russia's influence in 2016 election.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told members of her caucus she won't send the House home for Thanksgiving until it passes President Biden's 'Build Back Better' legislation.

Court Watson and Michael Martin claimed William Ivey Long had sexually abused them while they were working at The Lost Colony theater between 1996 and 2002 in North Carolina.

A kind-hearted man has cheated death after he was stabbed when coming to the aid of his 92-year-old neighbour - who was being robbed at a residence on the Gold Coast on Monday night.

A man is recovering in hospital after he was allegedly attacked with a meat cleaver by two males on Tuesday. The shocking attack unfolded around 8pm on Tuesday in regional Victoria.

The Chicago police union boss announced his retirement and bid to run for mayor on Tuesday, a day after his first disciplinary hearing for his controversial social media posts and other actions.

A grey Mazda which once belonged to William's late foster grandmother was allegedly used by his foster mother near the spot on the NSW mid north coast where the toddler disappeared.

Oyster farms in South Australia's Coffin Bay were forced to close on Tuesday as a 'precautionary measure' to investigate the source of a gastro outbreak across Australia.

Wholesale gas was worth around 60p per therm at the start of this year. Yesterday that figure reached highs of 240p per therm - though it is still below a record of 350p set in early October.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told congressional leaders Tuesday that the federal government has more time than her initial estimate on when it would fault on its debt. 

Melbourne's top female jockey broke her silence after winning a Supreme Court appeal over the additional two month ban which would have seen her not ride again until January next year.

The young man visited Riverlink Shopping Centre in North Ipswich on Thursday, September 9 from 2.30pm to 8pm, and allegedly filmed up several women's skirts with his mobile phone.

The 'body finder' who discovered the remains of murdered Queensland schoolboy Daniel Morcombe says the dig to find William Tyrrell's remains is a 'more complex' job.

A manhunt is underway for two men police would like to speak to about the shooting death of a Melbourne rapper which they describe as a targeted attack.

Jashyah Moore, 14, told police she had run away from her home in East Orange, New Jersey to escape the verbal and physical abuse she incurred at the hands of her mother, Jamie Moore.

Sarah Bryan, 20, appeared in Albury Local Court on Tuesday where she pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm over the altercation in a regional NSW pub.

Audiotree founder Michael Johnston, 38, was arrested on a felony charge of making an unauthorized video recording in a bathroom. Two nannies are also suing him.

While caps on home visitors will be scrapped and many hospitality, retail and entertainment venues will return to maximum capacity across Melbourne, some restrictions will remain.

The fourth annual FrogID Week encourages nature lovers to creep around their yards, local parks, and other green spaces listening for and recording the dulcet tones of Aussie frogs on a special app.

Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, has been arrested and charged with arson for setting Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on fire on Halloween. He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The 30-year-old former bowler said the word P*** was 'used constantly' in his time on the Yorkshire first team - and that racism continues to be rife in county teams across the country.

The first in-depth history of these top Nazi schools, by Durham University academic Dr Helen Roche, brings to light the exchanges they organised with top English schools.

The 37-year-old was pictured in handcuffs and with his head bowed as he was arrested in Summer Hill in Sydney's inner-west on Tuesday and charged with a string of child-abuse related charges.

The latest in an increasingly bleak series of public polls on Biden's presidency shows that not even half of all Democrats want him to run again in 2024 - and they're his biggest base of support.

Orios and Lindsey Zavros along with their children Zoe, three, and Zane, two, were travelling through the Simpson Desert when their van became bogged amid heavy rain on Friday morning.

Today, Miramax filed a lawsuit against Quentin Tarantino (left) for, they said, launching a Pulp Fiction NFT sale without 'simply communicating,' then ignoring their cease and desist order.

The Australia Institute's Centre for Future Work found the average worker is working 6.13 hours unpaid overtime a week, equating to eight unpaid weeks a year with over $125 billion lost in income.

More than 30 Year 13 Takapuna Grammar students spent last Friday drinking alcohol in the school common room as part of end of year celebrations.